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Lincoln Park
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Copyright
2005 David R. Phillps
Lincoln Park is a 1,200 acre (4.9 km˛,
1.875 mi˛) park along Chicago, Illinois' lakefront
facing Lake Michigan.
The park stretches from North Avenue
(1600 N) on the south to Foster (5200 N), just north of
the Lake Shore Drive terminus at North Hollywood Avenue.
It is Chicago's largest public park. Its recreational
facilities include 15 baseball areas, 6 basketball
courts, 2 softball courts, 35 tennis courts, 163 volley
ball courts, field houses, and a golf course. It
includes a number of harbours with boating facilities,
as well as public beaches. There are landscaped gardens,
a zoo, the Lincoln Park Conservatory, the Peggy
Notebaert Nature Museum, and a theater on the lake with
regular outdoor performances during the summer.
Zoo
Lincoln Park is well known for the
Lincoln Park Zoo, a free zoo that is open year-round.
Two sections of Lincoln Park Zoo have been set aside for
children. The partially-indoor Pritzker Family
Children's Zoo includes habitats of various North
American wildlife, and the Farm-in-the-Zoo Presented by
John Deere is a working reproduction of a Midwestern
farm containing horses and livestock such as pigs, cows,
and sheep. At the Farm-in-the-Zoo, children can feed and
interact with the animals and view live demonstrations
of farm work such as the milking of cows.
Art
A statue of Shakespeare decorated for
winter.
Friedrich Schiller statue near the
Lincoln Park Conservatory.
Photochrom of the Grant Memorial ca.
1901 Lincoln Park is known for its statuary. Walking
through the zoo and into the park, one sees many of
Chicago's great works of art. Just as there is a statue
of Abraham Lincoln in Grant Park, there is a memorial to
Ulysses S. Grant in Lincoln Park overlooking Cannon
Drive at the south end of the zoo. The sculpture was
created in 1891 by Louis Rebisso. There is also a statue
of Lincoln in Lincoln Park, the Standing Lincoln (1887),
by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the same sculptor who created
the Sitting Lincoln in Grant Park. A standing Lincoln
can be seen behind the Chicago History Museum. The only
other person who is immortalized by statues in both
Grant and Lincoln Parks is Alexander Hamilton, the
Lincoln Park statue sculpted by John Angel. John
Gelert's Hans Christian Andersen (1896) on Stockton
Drive provides a tribute to the Danish storyteller. The
Eugene Field Memorial (1922) designed by Edward McCartan
remembers the Chicago Daily News columnist and poet who
wrote "Little Boy Blue" and "Winken, Blinken, and Nod."
William Ordway Partridge's statue of William Shakespeare
(1894) provides a third great story-teller in Lincoln
Park. This seated Shakespeare provides a lap for
children to climb onto. A bust of Sir Georg Solti, the
former conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was
also situated just west of the zoo until its relocation
to Grant Park in October, 2006. Statues of the German
poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller
can also be found in Lincoln park. The large Goethe
statue is located near Diversey and Stockton. The
smaller Schiller statue is located near the western
entrance to the zoo. At Addison Street stands a 40-foot
(12 m) totem pole depicting Kwanusila the Thunderbird.
Finally, a statue of John Peter Altgeld (1915), the
nineteenth-century Illinois Governor who pardoned the
Haymarket Square rioters, can be seen just south of
Diversey. This statue was created by Gutzon Borglum and
unveiled on September 6, 1915. Borglum went on to become
the sculptor of the Mount Rushmore Monument.
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